Your daily dose of penguins!

Run date: 2022-11-06 20:14:34

Author: Sam Edwardes

Palmer Penguins

Palmer penguins is a data set provided by Allison Horst (https://github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins/). The goal of the package is to provide an alternative data set for data exploration & visualization as an alternative to the infamous iris data set.

Here is what the first 5 rows of the data looks like.

species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_mm body_mass_g sex year
Adelie Torgersen 39.1 18.7 181 3750 male 2007
Adelie Torgersen 39.5 17.4 186 3800 female 2007
Adelie Torgersen 40.3 18.0 195 3250 female 2007
Adelie Torgersen NA NA NA NA NA 2007
Adelie Torgersen 36.7 19.3 193 3450 female 2007
Adelie Torgersen 39.3 20.6 190 3650 male 2007

As you can see, the penguins data is much more fun then the iris data.

Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa

Visualizing the data

You can make many fun visualizations with the penguins data set.

Using tools like ggplotly you can easily make interactive visualizations. The plot above allows to compare bill length vs. bill depth by species of penguins.